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		shady-lady on Oct 9, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Using machine learning to index text from billions... Waiting on YouTube to use machine learning so i can select text off a video frame.. YouTube Text Overlay - coming soon.

newman8r on Oct 10, 2018 [–]

I contemplated a startup a few years back that would let people copy the text from coding tutorials. Uploaders would include a text file/repo for the work they're referencing in the video and it would get cross referenced when shown on the video to ensure the text was 100% accurate when copied.

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